The Classic Lenses Podcast

Banished to Okinawa for treating Graeme Jago badly last week, Perry retaliates with a list of demands about how this week’s show is conducted. The tight editorial constraints see Johnny and Simon resort to a plethora of listeners emails as well as talk about rat photography, don’t put that Aero Ektar too close to me, changing the recording slot to allow for whiskey, and Ooftah is the word. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Podbean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________   EPISODE 88 LINKS & REFERENCES Ultra Low ISO Club Podcast Viewfinder Vikings Podcast The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast Sunny 16 Podcast The Large Format Photography Podcast 120NOT120MM Mike Epstein Friends of the Chicago River: Mammals and Birds Chicago: America’s Rat Capital USA Today: Is your city one of the rattiest in the U.S.? Rat BBQ City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation: Rats in Chicago 23 adorable photos that will change the way you think about rats Sn

Graeme Jago of the Sunny16 Podcast joins the guys to read some Haiku and pick a winner for the Konica lens giveaway. True to form, Mr. Jago can’t resist causing a bit of chaos and picks a fight with Perry about street photography. Perry has a proper rant, then proceeds with counting Haiku syllables like a card shark in Vegas. Graeme also brings a bag of interesting lenses to discuss. Johnny does his best to avoid the Haiku fiasco altogether and Simon does his best to keep this hairy monster of a podcast on track. Spoiler alert: someone wins a lens! ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Podbean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________   GRAEME JAGO flickr | Instagram | Sunny 16 Podcast EPISODE 87 LINKS & REFERENCES Tair-11a 135mm f2.8 Olympus OM Lenses Zuiko 21mm f2.0 & 21mm f3.5 Nikon F-301 / N2020 X-Fujinon 50 mm f1.6 DM EBC Lens Haiku Generator EPISODE 87 PLAYLIST "Haiku D'Etat" by Mike Aaron & Eddie "Title Fight" by Western Haikus "Not About You" by Haiku Hands EPISODE 86 TAGS #Haiku #Gre

Deep statements such about whether a camera makes a noise or the photographer as well as, what is "whilst"? Other topics include Contax/Kiev lens adapters, adapter stacking, loud and quite shutters, Pentax 105mm f/2.4 medium Format lens, Agfa Ambi Silette and a couple of Karl Havens anecdotes. Miss you Karl!  ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Podbean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________   EPISODE 86 LINKS & REFERENCES Ambi Silette review by Mike Eckman Pentax 6X7 review at Japancamerahunter.com The Robot I Camera at Cameraquest.com Zeiss Ikon review at 35mmc.com Yeenon Ebay Shop Agfa Ambi Silette to Leica M Adapter Amadeo Adapters Ebay Shop Surströmming Official Surströmming Official in English Dog Tries Surströmming Jeppson’s Malort Official EPISODE 86 PLAYLIST "Guns Don't Kill People" by Goldie Lookin Chain “Fresh” by Kool & The Gang "A Shot of Malört" by Robbie Ellis “The Malört Song (A Waltz for Old Jeppson”) by Archie Powell and The Exports EPISODE 86 TAGS #TruckerTorpedo #Ambi

Well the title says it all, except it does not get close! So much to talk about this week as Johnny breaks a camera, Perry is exposed as an eBay noob, and Simon attempts to load a simple load camera, live on the podcast -- what could go wrong? Also in the show, Simon is caught saying something nice about using a rangefinder, we have sympathy for for Lucas Frazee's tragic lens with a great body, and Graeme Jago from the Sunny 16 Podcast is a bad person.   ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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This week we catch up with listeners letters and we announce how listeners will get the chance to win Perry’s #cheaplenschallenge Konica 40mm f/1.8. Plus, weird Topcons, perspective (yes again) and how this discussion affects Hamish Gill’s sanity, and oh, we’re briefly joined by a Super Special Guest. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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We mentioned that Mike Novak was in Chicago town last week, and this week we find out what he got up to on his visit with friends and our own Johnny Sisson. Yes, that means lots of talk about “real” pizza, some stuff they call pizza and sell to tourists, dipped sandwiches and why a McDonalds does a roaring trade in ketchup sachets. In between culinary exploits, we learn more about the miniature wonder of the Rollei 35 and why scale/zone focussing does not make a camera useless, as well as comfort zones and Wirgins. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Is the effectiveness of a camera's winding lever enough to justify keeping it, even though Simon can't take a decent picture with the camera for toffee? Is there a Novak in town? Can a plastic Soviet camera be somebody's soul creature? Clearly the answer is yes, but why...? ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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We’ve seen much of Edward Noble’s excellent work in the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook Group, so we asked him to join us for a chat about bokeh panoramas, Infrared, mono and false colour, and his prototype Zeiss lens. Plus, for those that like the less technical side of things, Johnny asks if bokeh panoramas are actually photographs… ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Perry returns, but Simon disappears! Due to some technical difficulties at the Classic Lenses Podcast UK home office, we lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on unsupervised. Perry shares tales of astrophotography and lobster rolls from his holiday in The Maritimes, and gets starry-eyed over his new Topcor 3.5cm lens. Johnny discusses finer points of the Canon IVSB, and pays tribute to his teacher and mentor, Barbara Crane. Bit of a rocky one here without Captain Forster at the helm, but the boys manage to make it through the shoals of episode 80. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Perry is still hitting the road to New Brunswick in Canada, so we've asked Eric Sluis to take time out from shooting all sorts of weird activities that go on outside his front door at Mons in Belgium, to take up the hot seat. Having postponed "The Nigel Cliff Question" from last week as it was simply too colossal for the time we had, Eric, Johnny, and Simon tackled the question, "Can a cheap lens compete with an expensive one?" Of course the answer is, "It depends" but extraordinarily, that phrase was not used. Find out our answers, assuming we understood the question... ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ Eric Kaas Sluis Flickr | Facebook EPISODE 79 LINKS & REFERENCES Vintage Film Shooters on Facebook CLP 22: Eric Kaas Sluis's Desert Island Lenses CLP 44: Eric Kaas Sluis talks LTM Lenses CLP 59: Budget Lenses Topcon Club LTM Topcor Lens Grainy Dayz Podcast ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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We finally get around to answering your emails this week! Seeing that Perry is gallivanting around North America, we asked frenemy of the show and the man behind the constructive feedback summaries of our show on Instagram's @bestvintagelens, Ricardo Bayon to sit in the third seat and help us out. Topics include cheap vs expensive adapters, focusing screens, why it's difficult to adapt some lenses to other systems, what does the aperture pin do, and what's wrong with a Spotmatic? Plus a couple of questions that take us into the depths/pit of why we like lenses that are far from perfect. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Don’t let anyone tell you that gear does not matter! Also, don’t start thinking that if you have the same gear, you can replicate the work of Isabel Curdes, as even she cannot! Isabel takes us laughing into the dark places she feels most comfortable. Along the way we take a trip through some of the A-list equipment Isabel has made the most of, and then moved on. A Flex Body Hasselblad with a digital back, boring Leica Summiluxes, an amazing large format soft focus Cooke lens, adapting to her Fuji GFX, tilt shifting, adding elements to lenses and exploiting light leaks with large format. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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We went on a bit this week, or rather Simon and Perry did. Johnny went a way for a while to do some household chores, but sneaked back later hoping he had not been missed. He hadn't, because Simon was salivating over his friend's Contax and Zeiss collection that had been laid before him. So, a camera heavy episode, but with plenty of lots of Planar, Sonnar, and yes, Tessar talk to to keep you happy. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ EPISODE 76 LINKS & REFERENCES Contax RTS, RTS II and RTS III Series SLR cameras Contax AX Contax Aria Review by Cheyenne Morrison at casualphotophile.com Baby Rolleiflex Horizon 202 Designed by Porsche: The Samsung ECX1 Rube Goldberg All About That Bass ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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Do aspherical elements improve or detract from ooftah (bokeh)? Has Johnny shot flowers with his Primoplan? Has Simon been comotosed by Tessars? These are a few things tackled this week, plus forthright opinions on C-41, street photography hesitancy and Johnny and Simon narrow down the listeners suggestions for Perry's cheap lens challenge. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ EPISODE 75 LINKS & REFERENCES CineStill °Cs "Temperature Control System" TCS-1000 Yashica Yashinon-DX 50mm f2 Konica AR 40mm f1.8 Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8 Industar-61 52mm f2.8 Bronica RF645 Bronica RF645 Zenza Bronica S2 Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8 Meyer Optik Gorlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9 Sima Soft 100mm f2 Sima Soft 100mm f2 Kodacolor lenticular color cinema process 1933 Chicago World’s Fair in Kodacolor Vivian Maier Gary Stochl at the Art Institute of Chicago Gary Stochl: "all of my shoes are comfortable" ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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Perry loves cheap lenses, Simon digs Tessars (instead of burying or sinking them) and Johnny says nice things about bokeh with a Primoplan. An alternate universe strikes the podcast this week as the hosts acknowledge their lens prejudices and promise to at least try to overcome them... Plus trash talk on (some) Leica equipment, a quick chat on Zunow lenses and cameras, and more than you might hope for on Johnny's ginger beer. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ EPISODE 74 LINKS & REFERENCES Ginger Beer Recipe Jeffo Wongs Flickr Albums Hacking the Ricoh R1 at 35mmc.com Leitz Elmar 3.5cm f3.5 Leica APO-Telyt-R 180 mm f3.4 Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2 More Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2 Konica UC 35mm f2 by Ken Rockwell Konica UC 35mm f/2 by Dante Stella Zunow 50mm f1.1 at Tamarkin Camera Tessar Lenses Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9 Zunow Lenses and Cameras Zunow SLR ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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This week, Simon watches the new promotional video for the Hasselblad CFV II digital back for Hasselblad V Series cameras and decides to make something of a chimera out of his Sony and 500 C/M... We finally catch up on a few emails from Robbie Jamieson, Chris Holland and a correctly pronounced Ian Barnaby Nutt and finally do their emails some justice. As usual we can't get through a show without talking about panorama cameras and Perry's Xpan, and Perry gives tips on what he describes as budget lenses. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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This week Per Edman, a full time wiseguy of the Minolta Mafia, returns with a big little camera – a Fuji GFX 50R. Is it a large format camera as some Fuji marketing says, or is it not even medium format? Opinions are expressed and they may well be disagreed with... So is it worth mounting 35mm SLR lenses on the little behemoth? This question is answered and we also find out the sad truth why Per is so passionate about Minolta gear... ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ Per Edman Flickr | Instagram EPISODE 72 LINKS & REFERENCES Fujifilm GFX 50R Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2 Minolta 85mm f2 Varisoft Minolta MC 58mm f1.4 Minolta RF Rokkor 250mm f5.6 Mirror Lens RMC Tokina 17mm f3.5 G.Zuiko 35mm f2.8 M42 Hasselblad XPan Camera Mounts Sorted by Register Ring Of Fire ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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This week, Perry finds himself in the middle of a 1 million person strong protest demonstration, so he naturally grabs his Konica Hexar + Zeiss ZM Biogon & Hasselblad Xpan. Following on from a chat about Perry's undoubtedly worthy photos, the conversation naturally turns to flower and bokeh photography. Plus, news from Fujifilm, and find out why Simon felt guilty about shooting poppies with a Cyclop 100mm f/2? Perry and Johnny are still scratching their heads on that one... ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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Perry Ge officially becomes a host of the Classic Lenses Podcast, and after an eternity, Johnny and Simon finally let him talk, and then there's no stopping him! Topics cover what professional sellers do with nice gear, focus aids, Alpa cameras & lenses as well as forgetting the difference between a Sonnar and a Planar... All this plus Johnny's long awaited field recording of Central Camera customers and co-workers. ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
 Pobean | iTunes | Stitcher  ________ EPISODE 70 LINKS & REFERENCES Zeiss C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM Alpa Kern Macro Switar 50mm f1.9 Leica Elmar 50mm f3.5 Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 M NOKTON Classic Fuji GW690III The Argus Brick Little Garden Steinheil Quinon 50mm f2 and f1.9 Canon LTM 35mm f1.5 Canon LTM 35mm f2.8 Canon LTM 35mm f2 Canon LTM 50mm f1.8 Canon LTM 100mm f2 and f3.5 Topcor 5cm f2 Topcor 5cm f2.8  ________ SUPPORT THE PODCAST
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We have a full on lensgasm this week! Perry Ge is our returning guest, and we welcome him by promptly sending him away on a sinking ship to be washed up with his simple choice of three lenses from his collection as well as one from his dreams. So, put on your sunglasses and listen to the most lens namedropped episode ever! ________ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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